taxonomic inventory process opportunistic search taxonomic inventory process Taxonomic Inventory Metadata Workshop Many E-Bird lists are of this nature; useful supplementary information is that observers should state whether they documented every taxon of interest they saw. A taxonomic inventory process that is a more casual reporting of occurrences of taxa of interest, still intended to be a comprehensive accounting of the taxa of interest, but with no pre-specified investment of effort nor planned trajectory for discovery, thus of often idiosyncratic length or spatial scope. This is more typically used to report multiple sightings, where the motivation is to record presence and abundance, rather than for individual anecdotal occurrences that are noteworthy. opportunistic search ready for release